Berkeley Center for Social Medicine

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The Berkeley Center for Social Medicine critically engages the intersection of social systems, social difference, health and health care in the United States and across the globe. 

Founded in 2013, the Center links to the discipline of social medicine internationally by bringing together Bay Area scholars from the social and historical sciences who are working on questions related to medicine, the health sciences, public health, global health, the social structuring of suffering, violence and the body.  

Berkeley Center for Social Medicine News

School COVID Mandates

December 3, 2021

Elena Conis, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, was interviewed in this NPR story, aired on All Things Considered, about the ...Read more about School COVID Mandates

Physician Advocate Adeola Oni-Orisan

November 24, 2021

Physicians for Reproductive Health profiled Adeola Oni-Orisan, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. Continously inspired by her marginalized patients, Oni-Orisan is a...Read more about Physician Advocate Adeola Oni-Orisan

Transnational Indigenous Identities

October 28, 2021

First Time Home, a participatory ethnographic film, is an official selection of the Portland Film Festival. Produced by Seth Holmes, Co-Chair of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, First Time Home premiered at the Portland Film...Read more about Transnational Indigenous Identities

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